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Paige Ryan
Caregiver Coach
Preferred
Paige is a Preferred advocate. These are the advocates we send families to directly when we make a match by hand.
- Credentials and training reviewed by our team
- Agreed to our family commitments on cost transparency and response time
- Reserves capacity for families referred through SupportNow
- Feedback collected from every family after a match
Why families come to me
I am a pediatric physical therapist and caregiver coach with over a decade of experience working with children with disabilities, neurodivergent profiles, and complex medical needs. I founded Foundation First Physical Therapy specifically because I kept watching families navigate impossibly complex systems alone — and I wanted to be the person in their corner. My advocacy work lives at the intersection of clinical expertise and systems navigation. I help families understand their child's PT needs, push back on insurance denials, navigate DME and equipment authorization, prepare for IEP meetings from a motor and functional perspective, and make sense of the medical language and recommendations being thrown at them by a team of specialists. What I bring that most advocates don't is the clinical background to speak the language of the providers AND the ability to translate it for families in a way that actually makes sense. I have sat in IEP meetings, written medical necessity letters, filed insurance appeals, and coached caregivers through some of the most overwhelming moments of their lives. I work with families of children with cerebral palsy, autism, rare and complex diagnoses, and medically complex profiles. I am based in Chelmsford, MA but offer virtual support nationwide through my caregiver coaching practice.
Lived experienceMy daughter isn't disabled, and I won't pretend my experience compares to raising a medically complex or disabled child. She does have sensory processing and regulation needs of her own, which has given me a real window into providers, therapies, and self-doubt, not just as a clinician, but as a parent living it too.
What I help with
Where I work
Virtual appointments nationwide. In-person in Massachusetts.
Fees and availability
Free & paid. FREE 20-minute Discovery Calls, Package Pricing and Payment Plans Available for Paid Services
Track record
Helped families reclaim hours in their week by fixing the systems, equipment, and home setups that were working against them.
